In his joint press conference with Mexican President Calderon yesterday, Barack Obama reaffirmed his support for an assault weapons ban. At the same time, he seems to regard it as an essentially unachievable goal:
Like many gun control advocates, Barack Obama wants to make something which is already prohibited even ‘more illegal’. But while most gun control backers avoid revealing this fact, Obama owns up to it — when he acknowledges that while it’s legal to manufacture or own ‘assault weapons,’ it is illegal to ship them across the border. Apparently in Obama’s mind, soldiers in drug cartels that are beheading police officers will be frightened about another weapons charge. Later in the press conference, Obama said that he wants the Senate to approve the OAS treaty against illegal trafficking in firearms:
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